By: Miller of Fort Bend (Senate Sponsor - Huffman) H.B. No. 2475

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 29, 2013; April 30, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; May 7, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 7, 2013, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the oath taken by a person who assists a voter.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 64.034, Election Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 64.034. OATH. A person selected to provide assistance to a voter must take the following oath, administered by an election officer at the polling place, before providing assistance:

"I swear (or affirm) that I will not suggest, by word, sign, or gesture, how the voter should vote; I will confine my assistance to answering the voter's questions, to stating propositions on the ballot, and to naming candidates and, if listed, their political parties; [and] I will prepare the voter's ballot as the voter directs; and I am not the voter's employer, an agent of the voter's employer, or an officer or agent of a labor union to which the voter belongs."

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.

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